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1 January 2012
Published by: IDS
The paper asks the following question: Does the shift in global poverty towards middle-income countries (MICs) mean that global poverty is becoming a matter of national inequality? The estimated cost of ending extreme poverty is 0.7% of world GDP (PPP).
27 January 2011
Published by: IDS
Although security of residence is central to the social policy agenda in most developed countries, it has not been a prominent concern is most developing countries in recent years. In countries such as Pakistan, urban planning is skewed in favour of housing for the rich and the middle classes.
5 January 2011
In many Third Wave democracies large classes of people experience diminished forms of citizenship. The systematic exclusion from...
1 January 2011
Published by: IDS
Although security of residence is central to the social policy agenda in most developed countries, it has not been a prominent concern is most developing countries in recent years. In countries such as Pakistan, urban planning is skewed in favour of housing for the rich and the middle classes.
28 January 2008
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
IDS was founded in 1966 as a 'special institution', Britain's first national institute of development studies. This history, prepared for the 40th anniversary, traces the evolving story from the founding vision and leadership to IDS's existence when the institute was classed as a Qango under the Thatcher Government in 1979.
3 December 2007
Published by: Overseas Development Institute
This study is part of a larger, two-year programme of research on Governance, Aid Modalities and Poverty Reduction, which is expected to improve the design and implementation of Irish Aid’s development and governance programmes in poorly performing hybrid states.
7 August 2007
Published by: Berg
Bangalore has become something of a poster boy of the ‘information age’of late, a city at the centre of the relatively successful...
1 January 2006
In many Third Wave democracies large classes of people experience diminished forms of citizenship. The systematic exclusion from...
1 February 2005
Ten years after South Africa's successful transition from a state built upon the subjugation of its majority population to one based on democracy, its relatively peaceful process of transformation is heralded as a model to other nations. In particular, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliations Commission (TRC) is held up as an example of a transitional justice mechanism that was able to both establish a more complete or "truthful" historic record of the apartheid era and contribute to the healing of a nation and the reconciliation of former enemies, both individual and institutional.
1 January 2003
Published by: IDS
This report examines political contradictions in reform processes across regional, national and local levels, drawing on research in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique.